3.5*
I am a huge fan of eery thrillers and realised, that although I have watched a huge amount, I have read very little! so when I read this blurb I thought this would be right up my street. The book is set in 2 separate times - 1976, when wild young sisters Loo and Bee, and their family lived in a run down cottage in the middle of no where. And now, when Loo - now Lucy - a grown woman with her own business is called back to her childhood home to confront what happened there all those summers ago.
In the summer of 1976 their mother Cathy, moved the girls and their siblings to what was supposed to be an idyllic simpler life in the country, but it didn't turn out that way. The father was always working away, artist Cathy was distracted, and odd noises and occurrences which were strange and random to start, eventually took over and affected their every moment.
The book begins with a group of young strangers setting up camera equipment in the now deserted cottage, looking to record disturbances and any evidence of what may have happened in the sweltering hot summer months in 1976. This brings up a lot for Lucy and her family, and as the book flits from the long hot summer years ago to the present day, you are taken on an uncomfortable journey into the past and this family's unspoken secret.
I found the book enticingly eery and satisfyingly atmospheric, albeit a tad confusing. But I am not sure I liked it, which is why its a few stars short of 5. I can't put my finger on it, but although the story was well rounded and came to somewhat of a conclusion, I was found wanting something more... or maybe I would rather just watch an eery thriller than read one!
I am a huge fan of eery thrillers and realised, that although I have watched a huge amount, I have read very little! so when I read this blurb I thought this would be right up my street. The book is set in 2 separate times - 1976, when wild young sisters Loo and Bee, and their family lived in a run down cottage in the middle of no where. And now, when Loo - now Lucy - a grown woman with her own business is called back to her childhood home to confront what happened there all those summers ago.
In the summer of 1976 their mother Cathy, moved the girls and their siblings to what was supposed to be an idyllic simpler life in the country, but it didn't turn out that way. The father was always working away, artist Cathy was distracted, and odd noises and occurrences which were strange and random to start, eventually took over and affected their every moment.
The book begins with a group of young strangers setting up camera equipment in the now deserted cottage, looking to record disturbances and any evidence of what may have happened in the sweltering hot summer months in 1976. This brings up a lot for Lucy and her family, and as the book flits from the long hot summer years ago to the present day, you are taken on an uncomfortable journey into the past and this family's unspoken secret.
I found the book enticingly eery and satisfyingly atmospheric, albeit a tad confusing. But I am not sure I liked it, which is why its a few stars short of 5. I can't put my finger on it, but although the story was well rounded and came to somewhat of a conclusion, I was found wanting something more... or maybe I would rather just watch an eery thriller than read one!